SAP ABAP Data Element DZEIEH (Unit for the performance of maintenance tasks)
Hierarchy
BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       IPRM (Package) Application Development R/3 Preventive Maintenance
Basic Data
Data Element DZEIEH
Short Description Unit for the performance of maintenance tasks  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type MEINS    
Data Type UNIT   Unit key for QUAN fields 
Length 3    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 3    
Value Table T006    
Further Characteristics
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Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Unit 
Medium 15 Unit 
Long 20 Unit 
Heading 15 Unit 
Documentation

Definition

Unit which determines the basis on which the scheduling calculation should be made.

Dependencies

For time-based and performance-based maintenance plans, the individual maintenance packages can only use different features if their dimension is the same as the unit for the maintenance strategy.

Note

If you use the units "month" and "year" for time strategies for maintenance packages, this can lead to problems in the use of hierarchies.

The reason for this lies in the length of the month:

1 month = 30 days => 1 year = 360 days
But: 1 calendar year = 365 (366) days

Example

1st package: 1Y (Y = yearly) => due after 360 days
2nd package: 1M (M = monthly) => 12th monthly package due after 365 days

The 12th monthly package for the monthly strategy and the yearly strategy do not fall on the same date.

Note

SAP therefore recommends that for the combination of monthly and yearly packages, the yearly packages should be defined using the unit "month" and not the unit "year". This means:

1st package: 12M (yearly)
2nd package: 1M (monthly)

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20100310 
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